Canadian Grammy Winners 2025

There was a lot of Canadian content at the 67th GRAMMY Awards that took place at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and was broadcast live on CBS.

Here is the televised ceremony:

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Hamilton Bluesman Steve Strongman attended as a nominee. Below is his commentary

Links: Steve Strongman, More Steve Strongman Stories, Video above courtesy of Steve Strongman Music

Below is a complete list of Canadian winners. Click here for the complete list

• Best Traditional Blues Album: The Taj Mahal Sextet  - Live at The Church in Tulsa (released through Waterdown Canada’s Stony Plain Records)
• Lowell: Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, co-writer on some tracks)
  
  
  
  Links: Lowell, More Lowell Stories, Beyonce, More Beyonce Stories, Video above courtesy of rauhlren
  
  
• Daniel Caesar: Best Reggae Album: (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Waiting In Vain)
  
  
  
  Links: Daniel Caesar, More Daniel Caesar Stories, More Bob Marley Covers/Stories, Video above courtesy of Stereohearts R&B
  
  
• Shawn Everett: Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, production and mixing) / Best Country Song: (Kacey Musgraves - The Architect, production and mixing)
  
  
• Dave Hamelin:  Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, producer)
  
  
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)
  
  
• Jessie Reyez: Best Reggae Album: Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Is This Love)
  
  
  
  Links: Jessie Reyez, More Jesse Reyez Stories, Video above courtesy of Jessie Reyez
  
  
• Scott Zhang aka Monsune: Best R&B Song (SZA - Saturn, songwriter)
  
  
  
  Links: Monsune, More Monsune Stories, SZA, More SZA Stories, Video above courtesy of SZA

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Canadian Nominees for the 2025 Grammys (including local artists)

The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were recently announced and quite a number of Canadian are in the running for the prestigious prize. 

In local news, Waterdown's Stony Plain Records have two albums up for the Best Traditional Blues Album category: Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down (co-produced, co-written and guest starring Hamilton/Kitchener Bluesman Steve Strongman +  backing vocals by Chris Ayries (Hamilton) on 'Sideline') and Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman. Nothing In Rambling, a song from Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down is also nominated for Best Americana Roots Performance.

The 67th GRAMMY Awards, will take be at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and broadcast live on the CBS.

Here is the official Grammy Nominee Announcement.

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Below is a complete list of Canadian nominees.

Steve Strongman (Hamilton/Kitchener)

• Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, co-producer, co-writer, guest on tracks) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
  
  
  
  Links: Fabulous Thunderbirds, More Fabulous Thunderbirds Stories, Video above courtesy of The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Topic
  
  
• Best Americana Roots Performance (The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Nothing In Rambling ft Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood, Co-producer) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Chris Ayries  (Hamilton)

• Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, backing vocals on 'Sideline') (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Sue Foley

• Best Traditional Blues Album (One Guitar Woman) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Arcade Fire

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Saltburn soundtrack, ft the song No Cars Go)

Lowell Boland

• Best Pop Solo Performance (Beyoncé - Bodyguard / Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
• Best Country Song / Record of the Year / Song of the Year (Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
• Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, co-writer on some tracks)

Marika Bournaki

• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album (Fotina Naumenko - Bespoke Songs, pianist)

Daniel Caesar

• Best Reggae Album: (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Waiting In Vain)

Deborah Cox

• Best Musical Theatre Album (The Wiz - 2024 Broadway Cast Recording)

Sara Diamond

• Best R&B Song (Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh), songwriter)

Grant Dickinson aka Thelabcook

• Best Rap Song ($ ft Rich the Kid & Playboi Carti - Carnival, songwriter)

Serban Ghenea

• Album of the Year (Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department, audio engineer & mixing)
• Best Engineered Album (Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet, audio engineer & mixing)

Dave Hamelin (The Stills)

• Best Country Solo Performance (Beyoncé - 16 Carriages, production and mixing recording engineer)

Shawn Everett

• Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, production and mixing)
• Best Country Album / Best Country Solo Performance / Best Country Song / Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well, mixing)

Kaytranada 

• Best Remixed Recording (Doechii - Alter Ego)
• Best Dance/Electronic Music Album (Timeless)
• Best Dance/Electronic Recording (Witchy ft Childish Gambino)

Avril Lavigne

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Deadpool & Wolverine soundtrack, ft the song I'm With You)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)
• Best Opera Recording (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Catan: Florencia en el Amazonas / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Puts: the Hours)

Jessie Reyez

• Best Reggae Album: Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Is This Love)

Spiritbox

• Best Metal Performance (Cellar Door)

Shania Twain

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Twisters: The Album, ft the song Boots Don't with Breland)

The Weeknd

• Best Melodic Rap Performance (We Still Don't Trust You with Future and Metro Boomin)

Charlotte Day Wilson

• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Cyan Blue)

Scott Zhang aka Monsune

• Best R&B Song (SZA - Saturn, songwriter)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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2024 Local & Canadian Grammy Award Nominees

On November 10, 2023 the Grammys announced their 2024 nominees. As always, a number of our fellow Canadian were on the esteemed list, including area artist Deadmau5 from Niagara Falls.

Hopefully, a number of them will bring some awards home when the 2024 GRAMMYs air live on Sunday, February 4,2023 on CBS and Paramount+.

Click here for the full list.

Here's a complete list of Canadian nominees:

• Best Dance/Electronic Music Album: Kx5 ft Deadmau5 (Niagara Falls) & Kaskade – Kx5
  
  
  
  Links: Deadmau5, More Deadmau5 StoriesVideo above courtesy of Kx5

• Album of the Year: GUTS – Olivia Rodrigo / Midnights – Taylor Swift (Mixed by Serban Ghenea - Montreal)
• Best Alternative Music Performance: Alvvays (PEI) – Belinda Says
• Best Americana Album: Allison Russell (Montreal) – The Returner
• Best Americana Performance: Allison Russell (Montreal) – The Returner
• Best American Roots Performance: Allison Russell (Montreal) - Eve Was Black
  
  
  
  Links: Allison Russel, More Allison Russel Stories, Video above courtesy of Allison Russell
  
  
• Best Americana Roots Song: Allison Russell (Montreal) – The Returner
• Best American Roots Song: Billy Strings ft Willie Nelson – California Sober (co-written by Aaron Allen - Chatham)
• Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: Hilario Duran (Toronto) and his Latin Jazz Big Band: I Remember Mingus
• Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording: William Shatner (Montreal): Boldly Go: Reflections On A Life Of Awe And Wonder
• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Ben Wendel (Vancouver) – All One
• Best Dance/Electronic Recording: Cirkut (Toronto) - Higher Than Ever Before
• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Feist - Multitudes (Engineered by Robbie Lackritz - Toronto)
• Best Folk Album: Rufus Wainwright (Montreal) – Folkocracy / Joni Mitchell (Alberta) at Newport [Live]
• Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Darcy James Argue’s (Vancouver) Secret Society – ‘Dynamic Maximum Tension
• Best Melodic Rap Performance: Drake & 21 Savage – Spin Bout U
• Best Metal Performance: Spiritbox (Victoria) – Jaded
• Best Opera Recording: Blanchard: Champion – Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Montreal), conductor
• Best Orchestral Performance: Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony – Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Montreal), conductor
• Best Pop Dance Recording:  Baby Don’t Hurt Me – David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray /  One In A Million – Bebe Rexha and David Guetta (Mixed by Serban Ghenea - Montreal)
• Best Rap Album: Drake - Her Loss
• Best Rap Performance: Drake & 21 Savage - Rich Flex
• Best Rap Song: Drake & 21 Savage - Rich Flex
• Best Remixed Recording: BADBADNOTGOOD (Toronto) – Alien Love Call
• Record of the Year: Worship – Jon Batiste / Vampire – Olivia Rodrigo / Anti-Hero – Taylor Swift (Mixed by Serban Ghenea - Montreal)

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories

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2023 Canadian Grammy Winners

The 2023 Grammy nominations were handed out on Sunday, February 5 and quite a few Canadians brought home the hardware.

Below is a complete list of Canadian winners(bolded)

• Contemporary Instrumental Album: Empire Central by Snarky Puppy (drummer Larnell Lewis - Toronto) 
• Classical Solo Vocal Album: Voice Of Nature: The Anthropocene (Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Montreal, pianist)
• Dance/Electric Recording: Break My Soul — Beyoncé (produced by Boi-1da - Toronto)
• Jazz Instrumental Album: New Standards Vol. 1 — Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis - Vancouver, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, & Matthew Stevens - Toronto
• Melodic Rap Performance: Wait For U by Future featuring Drake (Toronto) and Tems
  
  
  
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• Música Urbana Album: Un Verano Sin Ti — Bad Bunny (produced by Demy & Clipz - Montreal)
• Opera Recording: Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones (Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Montreal, conductor)
• Rap Performance: The Heart Part 5 — Kendrick Lamar (produced by Boi-1da - Toronto)
• Songwriter, Non-Classical: Tobias Jesso Jr (Vancouver)
  
  
  
  Links: Tobias Jesso Jr, More Tobias Jesso Jr Stories Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs
  
  
• Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Higher by Michael Bublé (Burnaby-BC)
  
  
  
  Links: Michael Bublé, More Michael Bublé Stories, Video above courtesy of Michael Bublé

Click here for the complete list

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories

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GOOD LUCK! 2023 Canadian Grammy Nominees

The 2023 Grammy nominations were recently released and a number of Canadians are in the running for a few awards. The ceremony takes place February 5, 2023

Below is a complete list of Canadian nominees (bolded)

Click here for the winners.

Album

• 30 by Adele (Tobias Jesso Jr. - songwriter, producer,  Serban Ghenea - engineer, mixer, Shawn Everett - producer)
• Harry’s House by Harry Styles (Tobias Jesso Jr.. - songwriter)
• Renaissance - Beyoncé (Boi-1da- producer, songwriter, Rupert “Sevn” Thomas - producer, songwriter, Drake - songwriter)
• Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe) by Mary J. Blige (Serban Ghenea - engineer, mixer)
• Special by Lizzo (Serban Ghenea - engineer, mixer)
• Music Of The Spheres by Coldplay (Serban Ghenea - engineer, mixer)
• Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar (Boi-1da - producer, songwriter)
• Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny (Demy & Clipz - producers)

Alternative Music Album

• WE by Arcade Fire

American Roots Performance

• Aoife O’Donovan & Allison Russell - Prodigal Daughter
  
  
  
  Links: Aoife O'Donovan, Allison Russell, More Allison Russel Stories, Video above courtesy of Aoife O'Donovan

Contemporary Instrumental Album

• Empire Central by Snarky Puppy (drummer Larnell Lewis is from Canada)

Dance/Electronic  Recording

• Intimidated - Kaytranada featuring H.E.R.

Choral Performance

• Verdi: Requiem - The Met Remembers 9/11 (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor)

Classical Compendium

• A Concert For Ukraine (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; David Frost, producer)

Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Voice Of Nature: The Anthropocene (Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist)

Historical Album

• The Goldberg Variations - The Complete Unreleased 1981 Studio Sessions by Glenn Gould

Melodic Rap Performance

• Wait For U by Future featuring Drake and Tems

Music Film

• Justin Bieber - Our World
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse - A Band A Brotherhood A Barn
  
  
  
  Links: Neil Young, More Neil Young Stories, Video above courtesy of neilyoungchannel

Music Video

• Adele - Easy On Me (Xavier Dolan - video director, producer, Nancy Grant - producer)
  
  
  
  Links: Adele, More Adele Stories, Video above courtesy of Adele

Opera Recording

• Aucoin: Eurydice (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor)
• Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor)

Producer, Non-Classical

• Boi-1da

Rap Song

• Churchill Downs by Jack Harlow ft. Drake (Boi-1da, songwriter, Ryan Bakalarczyk  - songwriter, Ace G- songwriter)
• Wait For You by Future ft. Drake & Tems

Record 

• Good Morning Gorgeous by Mary J. Blige (Serban Ghenea - engineer, mixer)
• Woman by Doja Cat (Jesse Ray Ernster - engineer, mixer)

Rock Performance

• So Happy It Hurts by Bryan Adams
  
  
  
  Links: Bryan Adams, More Bryan Adams Stories, Video above courtesy of Bryan Adams

Songwriter, Non-Classical

• Tobias Jesso Jr

Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• Higher by Michael Bublé

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories

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CONGRATS! Burlington's Charles Moniz Wins 2022 Grammy + Canadian Winners

Burlington Sound Engineer Charles Moniz won a Grammy for Record of the Year at the Sunday April 2, 2022 ceremony for his work on Silk Sonic’s Leave the Door Open

Links: Charles Moniz, More Charles Moniz Stories, Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars, More Bruno Mars Stories, Video of the acceptance speech from the band, Video above courtesy of  Bruno Mars

Other Canadian Winners

• Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1963-1967 (Best Historical Album)
• The Weeknd (Best Melodic Rap Performance for Hurricane with Kanye West & Lil Baby)
• Alex Cuba: Mendó (Best Latin Pop Album)
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor: Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Best Orchestral Performance)
• Dream Theater: The Alien (singer James LaBrie is Canadian) (Best Metal Performance)

Click here for the complete list of winners.

Also at the ceremony Canadians Justin Bieber and Daniel Caesar joined Giveon to perform Peaches.

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